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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Alice & Harvey Vandegar Puckett pose with Some of their Children in 1911

Alice & Harvey Vandegar Puckett Family

Circa 1911 - Millsap, Parker County, Texas

I thought I had put this wonderful picture on Genealogy Traces a long time ago, but when I saw it on my computer today, I looked for it here and couldn't find it. So if I have repeated it, please forgive me.

In the back from left to right are Lorado Missouri "Tommie", Lilly, and Lucy.

On the front row from left to right are Mildred, Harvey Vandegar, Alice holding Ballard, and Edna Alice (my grandmother).

Ballard was born in June of 1910 according to my family records taken from his sister, Edna's, handwritten notes. And he appears to be about six months old here. Maybe it was taken for a Christmas gift that December.

Children of Harvey Vandegar Puckett and Alice Cook Roberts:

Mary Lucy Puckett, born July 23, 1895 in Texas and died December 30, 1918 in Sandpoint, Idaho. She married Conley Talmage Rhoten in 1908. He was born May 22, 1892 in Weatherford, Parker Co., Texas and died March 31, 1954 in Borger, Texas.

Lilly Mae Puckett, born May 22, 1897 in Texas and died November 25, 1992 in Weatherford, Parker Co., Texas. She was married to Aubrey E. Morris, Sr.

Lorado Missouri "Tommie" Puckett, born August 1, 1900 in Texas and died September 15, 1944 in Austin, Texas. She married (1) William Boyd Kidwell about 1918. He was born in 1894 and died in 1974. She married (2) Charles Edward Riedel after 1920.

Edna Alice Puckett, born January 23, 1902 in Quinlin, Hunt Co., Texas and died August 30, 1976 in Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto Co., Texas. She married James Dolphus "Doc" Gailey on October 15, 1919 in Weatherford, Parker Co., Texas. He was the son of James Newton Gailey and Eleanor Elizabeth Brock. He was born November 8, 1898 in Brock, Parker Co., Texas and died October 6, 1976 in Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto Co., Texas.

Roxie Ann Puckett, born February 22, 1904 in Texas and died February 29, 1904 in Texas after living one short week.

Mildred Anne Puckett, born on August 31, 1905 in Greenville, Hunt Co., Texas and died May 5, 1995 in Weatherford, Parker Co., Texas. She was married to Edgar Ames on November 5, 1921. He was born November 11, 1900 and died January 21, 1984 in Weatherford, Parker Co., Texas.

Blanche Puckett, was born and died on January 7, 1908 in Millsap, Parker Co., Texas.

Harvey Ballard Puckett, born June 28, 1910 in Millsap, Parker Co., Texas and died June 21, 1995 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Married to Sadie Raye Conley who died on October 4, 1997.

L. G. Puckett, born May 24, 1912 in Teneha, Shelby Co., Texas and died in Wichita, Kansas. She had two sons by her first husband. She married a second time to a Mr. Smith. L. G. was born on a Friday.

Rufus Glen Puckett, born on November 20, 1914 in Texas and died on February 2, 1915 in Weatherford, Parker Co., Texas after living only two months.

Alice Cook Roberts had three children when she and Harvey got married. She lived in Lewing Town, not far from Many, Louisiana, where Harvey Vandegar Puckett was born. The children used to tell their own children that Grandpa would go to Lewing Town to court the Widow Roberts. The Roberts children were Lula Geneive, Eles Lee, and an infant boy. Alice left the three children with their grandmother, Mary Province Cook. A family story tells how the grandmother would not allow Alice to take the children with her to the new marriage.

And so, like many women of her generation, Alice had a large number of children and literally wore herself out.

Thanks, Jo. I have always loved this picture. My grandmother (the one in front on the far right) looks so much like my baby sister, it's uncanny. No, Alice did not get her children back from her mother when they were small. Genivieve sent Alice and Harvey cards occasionally but I'm not sure about the other two. I have a post here with her picture on a card she sent them.

Homsley Reunion, Seymour, Texas

Shiloh Baptist Church in 1736 ~ Camden County, North Carolina

Original Wooden Building ~ Click on Picture to go to Camden County's Homepage.

HOMESLEY CONNECTIONS

Several of my Richards family cousins have a copy of Carrie Homesley Cunningham's book, "Historical Record of the Holmesley Family." My dad gave me his copy before he died. In Len and Greg's post, "Homsley Stories", a reader tells them how Mrs. Cunningham came to his family farm when he was a boy in Arkansas and talked to his father about genealogy and then came back, delivering her printed book by car to different families that had ordered several copies!

You'll find other gems in this wonderful article on Glenn Gabbard's ancestry which is Homesley ~ the same as mine, and Len's and Greg's.﻿